--- title: “Please, please, Uncle Tiger,” said the Hare, holding up his thumbs… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: “Please, please, Uncle Tiger,” said the Hare, holding up his thumbs in supplication, “please don’t eat me, I am only a very small beast, and will make a very insufficient meal for a great big animal like you. Who acts: Uncle Tiger. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Tiger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:2:3 # text = “Please, please, Uncle Tiger,” said the Hare, holding up his thumbs in supplication, “please don’t eat me, I am only a very small beast, and will make a very insufficient meal for a great big animal like you. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Please please INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 please please INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 Uncle Uncle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Tiger Tiger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 thumbs thumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 supplication supplication NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 please please INTJ UH _ 25 discourse _ _ 23 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 24 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 eat eat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 29 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 30 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 very very ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 very very ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 insufficient insufficient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 45 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 46 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 48 like like ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Uncle Tiger | | | | | the Hare *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **hold up** | gerund | Uncle Tiger *not said here* | hare's thumbs | | supplication | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thumb=Theme | | 3 | **not** **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | Uncle Tiger *= tiger* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Uncle Tiger *= tiger* | a small beast | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | future | Uncle Tiger *not said here* | a insufficient meal | | | | for a great big animal like you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent meal=Product for animal=Beneficiary | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/2/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/2/4/) - ↑ back to [How the Hare Got His Split Lip.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/2/)